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Type: Dwelling Location: Enschede Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water Floor area / size: 200 sqm Status: Competition

This competition entry for a town house presents a residence with unprecedented spatial contrasts. The combination of a belle etage with cascading stairs results in a cross shape that forms the centre of the house.

The cross functions as a spatial, functional and organizational foundation. It carries the daylight onto the heart of the residence – usually the darkest part of the house. Several private rooms for personal use, such as studies, bedrooms, a bathroom and a roof garden, have been arranged around the cross. 

The façade is an important part of this house as the contrast between open and closed is expressed optimally in the materials: glass for the open belle etage and a dark brick front for the private rooms.

Type: Prototype of a dwelling Location: IJburg, Amsterdam Client: ING Real Estate Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with David Spierings, Remco van Gijzen Floor area / size: 220 m2 Cost: Euro 370.000,00 Competition: May 2006 Status: Preliminary design

The Beauty of Simplicity
 

In short, building is nothing but connecting and stacking modular units: an upgraded kind of Lego. And the simpler the connecting and stacking is, the more efficiently one can build.

So... we based Casa Duplo on the Lego brick. The design consists of a number of connected and stacked simple volumes. The efficient way of connecting and stacking results in terraces, loggias and a large overhang that can serve as a carport, with the interior-exterior relation playing an important part. 

The need to secure adequate privacy is at odds with the wish to bring as much of the exterior into the interior as possible. Casa Duplo’s window openings each face a different part of the environment, thus directing the eye to the space between the surrounding buildings. The façade, which consists of horizontal wooden slats, lets the daylight in and allows a view but obscures   the view into the house.

Type: Housing Location: Delft Client: DARE project development Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water, Joost Lemmens Floor area / size: 680 sqm Cost: Euro 1.515.000 Competition: Competition, nominated

‘Hoeksteen’ (Cornerstone) is a design for a residential building at the far end of Zuiderstraat that not only serves as a “lantern”, but is also the link between Delft’s city centre and the Zuiderpoort area that is currently under construction.

The meeting of these worlds is literally rendered perceptible: behind the old façade, we placed a new structure in the urban tissue.

The intersecting lines between the old and the new shape the new volume; the shape is adapted, on the one hand, to link up with the old buildings along Achterom and, on the other, manifests as part of the Zuidpoort area. The structure at the Achterom side underlines the old façades by making a cut between the old and the new. The incisions scale down the structure itself.

The commercial premises on the ground floor face all-round. Three small volumes are created that each face a different street side, held together by the courtyard on which all of the front doors are located. Two staircases, on Asvest and on Achterom, lend access to the courtyard. Passersby can look into the courtyard through the large opening in the façade on Zuiderstraat. It provides a view of the private world hidden behind the façade.

Type: Housing, urban plan Location: Chile Client: Elemental Chile Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water Floor area / size: 10.000 sqm

Wallhouse is a flexible strategy that combines possibilities for a wide diversity of housing types with a great differentiation of urban spaces. 

This competition asked for an urban housing plan for lowest income group in Chili. I ddemanded for flexibility in such a way that the inhabitants were able to extend their houses in the near future. The main element in this spatial strategy is a construction wall that contains the basic amenities necessary for a house: a bathroom, stairs, a kitchen and an entrance. Each individual house can be extended towards the back by adding rooms. At the same time the wall is a structural urban element. It creates an urban plan with two faces: a clear and formal front side towards the streets and a characteristic informal side towards the back.

Type: Dwellings and commercial space Location: Den Bosch, The Netherlands Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Marion Mischke Floor area / size: 650 sqm Status: Competition

Twist is a design for three work-at-home residences on the Brugplein in ’s-Hertogenbosch.

Over a commercial ground level with a small footprint, three volumes are positioned to face the various urban conditions of the location: Brugstraat (busy, noisy), Havensingel (quiet, idyllic) and Brugplein (dynamic, wide view).

The three volumes accommodate working, sleeping and living facilities respectively. The residences, therefore, rotate through these volumes. As different floor levels are indicated for different facilities the three volumes differ in height.

The residences are accessed from a central point on level +1. Two tapered staircases from Havensingel and Brugstraat lend access to this central point.

Each residence covers three floors and has a roof garden. The external staircase is literally the pivot of the project and it emphasizes the transition from one function to another. It creates distance between the various programme units and in doing so creates a great residential experience.